fineboynl:
after rent expires. you served her 6 months rent free.

you think it's so easy to make out. there are many tenant that want to pack by themselves but stock there due to many reasons. not to take of giving someone notice just like that.

I have been trying to check location but so many issue rent her fucking expensive. one need to select location, your work environment and so many other things I can't mention. at least it should be better than where you currently staying.

You will pay for those six months. Except if the landlord wants to let it slide. But if not, you will pay every penny. Ask your lawyer.

Opus85:
@OP, this is a free advise. I have evicted tenants and j am an estate surveyor. I have used court, mediation centre and traditional method to evict tenant.

First, if the tenant refuses to acknowledge the notice, don't worry. Paste it on her door. Snap the notice showing clearly that it is pasted on her door. Take it off, place it at the entrance of the property take pictures showing the address of the house, full view of the house and closer view of the notice showing all written letters on it. Once the notice expires, serve her 7days notice too and do same if she refuses to acknowledge it. Print the pictures, and copy of the notice. Let your lawyer file matter in magistrate court. The tenant would be served court summon. Day of hearing or mention of the case, appear in court with your lawyer. This might take a little time to achieve. Once court gives judgement, the tenant would pay mesne profit till the day she/he vacated the property. Even if they run away, if you are able to get the new address, court ballif will go and do recovery of the mesne profit. (I have done this before. Took 2years but the man ran and new address was gotten. His suv is in court to be auctioned to pay off the mesne profit)

2. Mediation centre doesn't really have effect like that because they don't have much power to execute judgment. They only appeal to both parties and if there is no resolution, they advise to go to court. Sometimes if tenant know them, they will drag your matter and waste your time.

3. Traditional method is like customary court. Report the matter to the oba in your area (if he is a respected and feared one) they will give tenant 3months self and not 6months to move out. If tenant is stubborn after all warnings, they use boys to move their things out. (I have used this method for 3 tenants in ikotun) this one saves money for you than going to court. They don't request for much.

baba! U are a very big liar and you are not even good at it, I don't pity the op that will yake your advice but your family that follows your lead knowing you know so little lol

DaBogu:
Author Leezah

LAWYER
Get a lawyer.. Please don't take laws into your hands, because the law tilts more in favour of tenants. get a lawyer to Give him quit notice if his a yearly tenant If the tenant is on yearly payment, it is 6 months notice that u'll give him and it will start counting frm d day you served him d notice irrespective of how many months he has not paid.

Once the quit notice has been filed validly for 6 months, any day over that 6 months notice means the tenant is holding over that property illegally and he no longer becomes a tenant but a tenant at sufferance and from there onward you dont need to issue him a quit notice again but an OWNERS INTENTION TO RECOVER PREMISES in 7 DAYS And from there onwards the tenant practically has no defence legally when the matter will be filed at the rent tribunal nearest to you.

Tops with all the adjournment within 3 to 5 months the court balliffs will personally come to serve them to eject them of the premises compulsorily.

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DO IT YOURSELF (DIY)
If you don't want to contact a lawyer.
Let me give you a summary of what you should do .Serve him the statutory notices ie 7 days and one month,then file a suit for recovery of premises at the nearest magistrate court.

Once the case comes up tell the court you are handling the case yourself,enter witness box and tell the court what the man did and the order you are seeking from them.The bailiff will then enter the box and tell the court that he served the man but he didn't come .The court will then grant you the order you are seeking.You will take the judgement copy and go to the bailiff and pay them for policemen.

The policemen and the bailiffs will go to the man's house one early morning, break his house and pack all his properties to the court premises. I hope you learnt something today from this. Goodluck

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GOVERNMENT
If you based in Lagos If its Lagos, go through the human right activist section or Mediation center of the State Government. They have many outlets in each local government in the state. They'll charge a fee of #8,000 and would handled the cases

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STREETS
I don't encourage this any longer but its inevitable where a tenant things you must suffer after the initial suffer to build a house. Go to court, pay the clerk and officials and get a notice, paste on his door in his absent and snap then take notice off. Make some other person appear in court in his stead as a proxy tenant he transferred tenant ship to without your consent and get a verdict and evict him immediately as the unpreparedness will rock his life for ever. He can continue the fight from outside your house. The person that appeared is the person you have been seeing around the house and you don't know him. Simply put, he alone can provide that person.

Oboi,you wicked oohh

Oracleforce:
Pls, advise me on what to do with this stubborn tenant.

I wish to recover my apartment from a female Tenant for personal use...I then approach a lawyer to draft a quit notice. I gave her the quit notice and she refuses to collect it,

lawyers in the house, pls can you advise me on what to do? Thanks.

your story is incomplete, what are u hiding?

Draslo:
Not a lawyer but if you serve me quit notice and I'm not owing, you're just wasting your time. If my rent expiration coincides with the quit notice, I'll flex 6-months sara and nothing go happen.

The problem is when landlords issue a quit notice in the morning, they expect you out by evening. Where is the sense in that? As if I'll be living under the bridge and contacting housing agents from there.

my former landlord gave me a quit notice for no reason and I stayed for one year and seven months without paying a dime.if not because I had already decided to quit even before she came up with the quit notice.I would shown her real wickedness.

fineboynl:
is the 6 months notice completely free or from part of her yearly rent.

Six months are not always free, you are to pay for that six months, it's only given to you to enable you get another apartment. And the earlier you get another apartment, the lesser you'll pay.

Draslo:
Not a lawyer but if you serve me quit notice and I'm not owing, you're just wasting your time. If my rent expiration coincides with the quit notice, I'll flex 6-months sara and nothing go happen.

The problem is when landlords issue a quit notice in the morning, they expect you out by evening. Where is the sense in that? As if I'll be living under the bridge and contacting housing agents from there.

stop deceiving yourself.

You cannot just serve a tenant a quit notice because you need the property for personal use.. especially if they are not owing rent.

emmancecute:
stop deceiving yourself.

He is not wrong. You need to go do some researches about tenant/landlord rights.

Oracleforce:


Partly from her yearly rent. base on the lawyer's advice

Which stupid lawyer advice you this. What you can give her from her rent is Non Renewal of Tenancy at expiration of her yearly rent, at expiration of her rent you then give her Notice to Quit., After 6months she refuse to go then you can go to mediation centre to lodge the complain. She will told to pay for the 6monthd given if the case go to mediation center.

The problem actually begin from overcharging the rent of a property, Wicked landlords usurping the tenants thinking they have no options.
It is common among low-class apartments, not luxury ones.

Draslo:
Not a lawyer but if you serve me quit notice and I'm not owing, you're just wasting your time. If my rent expiration coincides with the quit notice, I'll flex 6-months sara and nothing go happen.

The problem is when landlords issue a quit notice in the morning, they expect you out by evening. Where is the sense in that? As if I'll be living under the bridge and contacting housing agents from there.

You are correct.

Oracleforce:
Pls, advise me on what to do with this stubborn tenant.

I wish to recover my apartment from a female Tenant for personal use...I then approach a lawyer to draft a quit notice. I gave her the quit notice and she refuses to collect it,

lawyers in the house, pls can you advise me on what to do? Thanks.

Paste it on her door and take a picture with the date clearly showing.

If a yearly tenant, go to court in 6 months with the photo,
If a monthly tenants, go to court in 1 week (not sure) with the photo.

All of you saying you will stay there for free should google "mesne profit" under tenancy law Nigeria.

You want to quit her because she nor give you kpomo

1759ademola:
The problem actually begin from overcharging the rent of a property, Wicked landlords usurping the tenants thinking they have no options.
It is common among low-class apartments, not luxury ones.

How much will normal charge be?
Who determines that? Landlord or tenant?

darlenese:
You want to quit her because she nor give you kpomo

If she gives him, he still has a right as a landlord to issue her a quit notice.

fineboynl:
after rent expires. you served her 6 months rent free.

you think it's so easy to make out. there are many tenant that want to pack by themselves but stock there due to many reasons. not to take of giving someone notice just like that.

I have been trying to check location but so many issue rent her fucking expensive. one need to select location, your work environment and so many other things I can't mention. at least it should be better than where you currently staying.

How does that concern the landlord?

Hmm

Draslo:

Not a sense of entitlement. By law, I'm entitled to six months.

It's 3 months brother. No law offers a tenant 6 months in Nigeria except there is pending court case.

Calitoscassius:
He is not wrong. You need to go do some researches about tenant/landlord rights.

ok Sir.

Oracleforce:


Partly from her yearly rent. base on the lawyer's advice

Has TO START AFTER her rent expires.

Solatium:

has her rent expired?
if her Rent hasn't expired you have no right to serve her a notice,wait till the last day of her Rent and serve her the notice,be rest assured that she can still stay up to 6months before you can evict her

He is to give her the notice 6 months to her rent expiry, NOT after it expires.

Why did the bailiff go without a police escort ?

Opus85:


It seems you have not seen where they track tenant to new location and recover owed rents by court bailiff. My former tenant was saying same thing until his new house was located and as early as 5am court bailiff were already in his flat packing his things. Even SUV was taken. They fought the court baillif and broke ones head, that one aggravated the issue. In fact his wife, him self were locked up. Another charge was placed on them.

It is only landlord that ks not ready to face those wahala that would just forget the money so far you have vacated the property.

Draslo:
Not a lawyer but if you serve me quit notice and I'm not owing, you're just wasting your time. If my rent expiration coincides with the quit notice, I'll flex 6-months sara and nothing go happen.

The problem is when landlords issue a quit notice in the morning, they expect you out by evening. Where is the sense in that? As if I'll be living under the bridge and contacting housing agents from there.

I guess you have not heard of the term "mesne profit" ?. (pronounced mean profit), You may google it or ask a learned friend.

GboyegaD:


Not when he gives you the notice early enough.

As if na u u go just pack run commot Abi?
Judge human as a human don't judge human as a programmed machine. A peaceful tenant receiving quit notice is not something any one it going to throw party, of course the anger wiĺl be much and that 6 months must be used complete. So op, calm down for the girl, she go leave or tell am to get another apartment as u pay every dim of it.

Zenithh:
Eddyat! You never see anything. You are going to suffer more. More tenants will sure make ur life miserable..bet me on that. Raving lunatic

Miserable excuse of a man!

are you sure you're not the said lady?
Why are you this pained?

Can someone quote the section of the law that covers this tenancy issue?

Alot of tenants feel they are entitled to 6months rent and that only after rent expires can one serve a quit notice.

Oracleforce:


"Incomplete"? Lemme explain

Seven years ago, i rented one of my apartments to a tenant; , two months to the expiration of her tenancy renewal, I served her a recovery notice and also informed her verbally but she refused to collect and acknowledge the receipt of the quit notice ..

You can't serve her 2 months notice as the landlord.
You are to serve it to her 6 months to her expiry.
What you can do now is to serve her the notice, and indicate you as the landlord will waive payment of the 4 months from her, and will not be willing to receive her yearly rent in 2 months time after the rent expires.

What is Recovery Notice again?

ZaRuleOfLaw:

which state? I don't know how Lagos people do it, but in other places, you don't need a lawyer to issue quit notice. I kicked out one stupid couple who were vandalizing my apartment 2 yrs ago, without a lawyer. it took 14 days. the fool initially boasted that he had the right to one year notice LOL. something is inherently wrong with tenants from the flat*head region. every opportunity is used to create problems. Nepa bill, borehole servicing etc. I won't be accommodating them henceforth.

U no talk where u dey o, try am for Lagos u go pay tire

BarristerAlarig:
Can someone quote the section of the law that covers this tenancy issue?

Alot of tenants feel they are entitled to 6months rent and that only after rent expires can one serve a quit notice.

Depends on which State the said property is located. Different States have different property and tenancy laws

https://lawpadi.com/10-things-lagosians-should-know-about-the-lagos-tenancy-law/#:~:text=The%20Lagos%20Tenancy%20Law%202011%20states%20that%20if%20you%20are,year%20from%20a%20yearly%20tenant.

fkj950ax:


Depends on which State the said property is located. Different States have different property and tenancy laws

https://lawpadi.com/10-things-lagosians-should-know-about-the-lagos-tenancy-law/#:~:text=The%20Lagos%20Tenancy%20Law%202011%20states%20that%20if%20you%20are,year%20from%20a%20yearly%20tenant.

I'm in Edo. Any link?

BarristerAlarig:


I'm in Edo. Any link?

Situation in Edo State is critical.
They seems to be using 1977 law